Simon Willison’s Weblog

Python in the Scientific World. Python continues to make strides in the scientific world—and the Hubble Space Telescope team have been using it for 10 years!

Posted 6th November 2009 at 11:04 am

Recent articles

My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide - 9th September 2025
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search - 6th September 2025

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